C. Jeffries - Is It Genuine?

[doodle]

Could be a good buy for someone.......if it's a genuine ad.?!

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160978765745&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

 

I'm not a buyer, nor connected to the seller and I definitely don't intend any discredit - just a heads-up for interested parties who know about these things.

[Geoff Wooff]

Well spotted Doodle,

another scam by the looks of it.

Geoff.

[Paul Read]

Not genuine

[Don Taylor]

It is a rip off of this genuine listing for a concertina that sold last December:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-C-Jeffries-anglo-concertina-/130815956921?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e753d17b9&nma=true&si=CCuK7bQ%252FQ%252BgVEkplaI3C8tdi%252Fxc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

and the 'apparent' seller is somebody in South Korea whose account has been hacked.

 

So presumably the modus operandi is to:

 

1) Grab the details of a high priced item (anything will do) from an earlier listing in eBay

2) Hack into somebody's ebay account, probably by password guessing. Any account will do.

3) Post a listing for the original item in that account holder's name but provide all of the details inside of an image instead of text. This makes it almost impossible for the eBay scam detector to find it. The image contains text to tell you to contact the scammer directly through an anonymous, throwaway email address. I bet that you would then be asked to send money by Western Union.

 

If you do put a real bid in then the scammer does not care - that would be a problem between the bidder, the hacked account holder and eBay.

 

This scam is pretty easy to accomplish and hard for eBay to defend against without restricting listings. eBay could ban anything other than text in the seller's descriptions, they could also scan for and prevent hyper-links inside listings.

 

eBay'ers really need to use secure passwords that are changed frequently. But, that is probably not going to happen any time soon.

 

BTW. It is pretty easy to report a suspected fraudulent listing. There is a "Report item" link in the bottom right-hand side of every listing. I think that you do have to have an eBay account to report a listing.

Edited February 21, 2013 by sjm

[Paul Read]

East ro report, much more difficult to get Ebay to do anything about it. We had one recently where a number of us told them and they let it run its course.

[Ann-p]

Seller in S.Korea along with 2 others today, item located in UK! The items (over 100) have been removed from two of the sites now, can't understand why both concertinas are still on the third.

 

Paul, different scam with an apparently genuine site set up to "sell" the Crabb.

Edited February 21, 2013 by Ann-p